Rustic Pine Computer Stand

I have been working the past couple of months on renovating my garage, insulation and such, before the snow flies. I hope to have a nice cozy little workshop set up pretty soon, but still have a place to park the cars when I am not working in there. I also had an old computer kicking around in the garage with a Wi-Fi card, so I set it up to stream some music into the garage. It also gave me a computer to do quick searches on the internet regarding anything I might be working on at the time. The other problem was where I was going to put it.

So, from some left over untreated pine fence boards I still had from this past summer’s fence build, I whipped this stand together completely from scratch. It’s the first stand I have built from scratch that didn’t even wobble a tiny bit. It stands almost 6 feet tall to put the monitor at face level (mostly custom designed for me). Since this was a bit of a prototype, I hope to make a new model in the future with an adjustable keyboard tray and an extra shelf for a printer.

great idea,,I have one in my garage, its great for looking up plans, directions, lumberjocks.com. I networked mine , shared the printer so the rest of the house can print in the garage, that way the printer isn’t in the living room and we don’t have to run up and down the stairs to print.

I bet that’s handy. My computer is about as far from the garage as it gets, so if I want to look something up I have to traipse through the entire house to do so.

I’m glad to see the PC up off the floor by more than just an inch or two. It’s still going to get dirty (blow it out often!), but computers seem to get dirtier and dirtier the closer they are to the floor.

Have you thought about laying the box down on its side? You could fit a couple full-sized shelves in there if you did: one for the printer, and one for miscellaneous stuff. There is plenty of space behind the keyboard for that subwoofer (or whatever it is next to the computer). Maybe run all the wires through some tubing to “pretty it up” if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s lots of potential here!